Here come the SmartPhone Trojans! iPhone, Blackberry, Andriod…
We’ve already seen an iPhone worm or two. NOW TWO articles here – the first on BLACKBERRY MALEWARE, the second on ANDRIOD MALEWARE. As the platforms solidify so do the targets for maleware authors… Quite ironically, this is BAD news for Palm and their Pre which nobody seems to care about.
Study of BlackBerry Proof-of-Concept Malicious Applications
SMobile’s Global Threat Center (GTC) has released a research study on proof of concept malicious applications for BlackBerry platform. This research exposes the weakened security posture of BlackBerry device that operate under the BlackBerry Internet Service environment. The proof of concept applications discussed in this research are developed to examine the response of BlackBerry inbuilt security framework. Through this research, SMobile concludes that there are certain instances of attacks that may be successful in bypassing the security framework of BlackBerry and poses a significant threat to privacy and confidentiality of the user. This research paper can be downloaded here:
via Study of BlackBerry Proof-of-Concept Malicious Applications « SMobile Global Threat Center.
Warning On Possible Android Mobile Trojans
Now there has been some buzz about fraudulent applications being posted on the Android Market. See these postings:
via Warning On Possible Android Mobile Trojans – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab.
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